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Empowering Schools: Enhancing Services Through Increased Delegation

This consultation focuses on delegating more responsibility to schools for enhanced local control, choice, and service access. It aims to bridge the financial gap between academies and maintained schools, offering options for devolution and fairer funding distribution. Schools can benefit from increased flexibility and service choices without the requirement to become an academy. The proposal includes moving funding to the 'front line' and introducing new service offers like Edukent for streamlined access. Schools are urged to evaluate the risks and benefits of delegation, considering potential impacts on specialisms, funding, and service effectiveness. Decision-making by schools is crucial, with the consultation ending on July 31 and service implementation scheduled for April 2012.

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Empowering Schools: Enhancing Services Through Increased Delegation

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  1. Increased Delegation to Schools Consultation briefings

  2. Why? • More choice and local control • Protect and improve those services that schools need and value • Reduce the perceived financial difference between academies and maintained schools • Don’t have to be an academy to gain the additional service choices and freedoms

  3. Dedicated Schools Grant £877m

  4. Centrally Managed Services £71m

  5. Proposals for the £71m N.B. Retained services include some statutory responsibilities ‘Cannot delegate’ – these are not universal services

  6. Delegation Consultation • Around £40m proposed for delegation or devolution; only 3.6% of DSG remaining centrally • More funding moved to the ‘front line’ • Fairer distribution than the academy method • Devolution offered as option for some ‘difficult to delegate’ services

  7. School Views • General principle of greater delegation • Are these the right ones to delegate? • Consider the risks and benefits More cash; more responsibility Specialisms disappear or more difficult to access Need not matched by money Opportunity to spend differently Residual services more costly - but more effective? • Formula distribution factors – move from subjective to objective

  8. Service Buy-back • New service offers in September • Edukent - new one point of access for all KCC services; common systems; greater efficiency • Greater flexibility and choice of service provision, but including grouped packages • Maintain and enhance what schools want. Benefits of central provision but driven by schools

  9. Timetable • 31 July consultation ends • Delegation decisions by October • Service specifications published September/October • School decisions required November • Services start and budgets delegated April 2012

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